Hair-treating apparatus



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HAIR TREATING ALVPARATUJS Sept. 3, 1929.

Filed 001; 8, 1928 '3 Shaets-Shet 1 mum!!! gmentoz Sept. 3, 1929. V P. E. GAIRE 1,726,616

HAIR TREAT ING APPARATUS Filed Oct. 8, 1928 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Ciao: nu

Patented Sept. 3, 1929.

UNITED STATES PAUL EDMOND GAIRE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-TREATING- APPARATUS.

Application filed October 8, 1928. Serial No. 311,162.

This invention is directed to an improvement in hair treating and dressing machines, and particularly to a machine designed for use in connecting with curling hair in that type of hair dressing known as marcelling.

Machines of this type usually include a series of elements on which individual wisps or strands of hair are wound, with means, either electrical or by steam and air, for

treating the hair while so curled to maintain it in a more or less permanently curled condition. Such machines must be adjustable in order to accommodate customers of different heights, and it is highly desirable that the mechanism employed in connection with the machine be largely concealed from the customer, not only from the standpoint of artistic assembly, highly desirable in a beauty parlor where such treatment is usually carried out, but also from the standpoint of avoiding the attention of the customer being directed to the apparatus employed.

Furthermore, it is important that the adjustability of the device he of simple character in order that the attendant may readilv adjust the machine to the height of the particular customer with minimum labor and without loss of time and that in this adjustment the necessary operating parts be arranged to avoid possibility of disconnection or separation during the ad ustment.

Therefore, the primary object of the present invention is the provision of a machine of this type in which the operating parts are mounted for vertical adjustment in a simple and expeditious manner to permit the accommodation of the machine to customers of different heights.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a machine which, while provided for vertical adjustment, is nevertheless designed to conceal the operating parts in all positions of adjustment.

The invention is illustrated in the accom- 45 panying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of the improved machine.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation, partly in section, of the same.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a transverse vertical section through the machine.

Figure 5 is a plan view.

Figure 6 is a view in side elevation of the adjustable or movable member of the machine.

Figure 7 is a section on line 77 of ure 6.

The improved machine comprises a main frame, including an ornamental foot or base 1, preferably of skeleton form, to which secured an upstanding shield 2 designed to conceal the working parts of the apparatus and including a front plate 3 and side plates 4 which extend at right angles to the front plate. The shield 2 is provided or formed at the corners, that is the meeting edges of the front plate and side plates, with U-shaped guides 5 which open toward each other, as clearly shown in Figure 3. These guides form trackways for the sliding adjustment of the movable part of the apparatus and while, from the standpoint of simplicity of manufacture, they are shown as constructed independently of the shield and secured to the latter, it is nevertheless to be understood that they may be formed integrally with the shield if desired. The guides 5 are connected at their upper ends by a transverse brace bar 6 and at a point some distance below the upper end by a similar transverse brace bar 7.

The movable or adjustable member of the Figapparatus is in the form of a slide frame shown more particularly in Figures 6 and 7 and comprises a frame including side bars 8 preferably constructed as a single member with a curved upper terminal 9. As shown more particularly in Figure 3, the side bars 8 are preferably of hollow U-form, the openings of which are outwardly and the transverse contour of which is such as to permit the side bars 8 to siidably cooperate with the guides 5 of the shield frame. Thus the adjustable frame is capable of vertical sliding movement in the shield frame in order that such adjustable frame may be moved to various heights above the shield frame.

The adjustable frame, hereinafter termed the slide frame, has the lower end of the bars 8 inwardly deflected, as at 9', to avoid the guides 5, and then downwardly extended, as at 10, in a plane rearwardly of the guides 5. The lower end of the portions 10 of the side bars 8 carries a platform 11 for the support of certain parts of the apparatus, as will later appear. Immediately above the offset 9, the side bars 8 are provided with a transverse bar 12, said side bars being further provided near their upper ends with transverse bars 13 and 14, these transverse bars serving to brace the slide frame and at the same time provide for the connection thereto of other parts of the device, as will be later referred to.

To provide for the convenient vertical adjustment of the slide frame relative to the shield frame, the cross bar 7 of the shield frame is provided with a drum 15, the shaft 16 of which extends through the shield 2 and is provided with a crank handle 17 whereby the drum may be operated. The upper cross bar 6 of the shield frame is provided with a sheave 18, and a cord or cable 19 terminally secured and wound about the drum is extended over the sheave 18 and then downwardly and terminally secured at 20 to the cross bar 12 of the slide frame. Obviously, by proper operation of the crank handle 17, the slide frame may be adjusted vertically with respect to the shield frame to any position within the limits of the machine.

If desired and as preferred, one of the cross bars of the shield frame, as 7, may be provided with ordinary set-screws 21 h21ving threaded bearing in one wall of the guides 5 and bearing against the side bars 8 of the slide frame, these set-screws obviously providing means whereby the slide frame may be ixed in any desired relation to the shihld frame following desired adjustment of the slide frame by means of the handle 17 An. auxiliary shield 22 is carried by the slide frame through connect-ions 23, the auxiliary shield being preferably of less width than the front plate 3 of the main shield 2, and bein arranged by the connections 23 in a plane forwardly of the main shield, that is with the rear surface of the auxiliary shield substantially in contact with th front face of the main shield. With the an: shield of sufhcient length, it ap aren; that such auxiliary shield effectively eonceals the mechanism of the apparatus car-' ried by and movable with the slide frame, and which in the adjustment of the slide frame would otherwise be visible above the main shield.

The type of hair treating apparatus for which the present improvements are particularly designed contemplates the use of steam and air in the curling of the hair, and to provide for this use the slide frame is provided with spaced substantially parallel pipes 2st and removably secured by appropriate clips 26 to the cross bars 13 and 14 of the slide frame. said pipes extending vertically to a point slightly above the auxiliary shield 2 and are then carried forwardly and joined to a common pipe 27 provided at its lower end with a hollow casing 28 in open communication with the common pipe and from which casing depend the various flexible tubes 29 adapted to be connected with the usual hair treating implements, such as boxes indicated conventionally at 29 in which the curled hair housed for the treatment. The upper end of the casing 28 is in the form of a disk 30 in which the ends of the tubes 2.) are supported when not in use. These details, however, are wholly unimportant so far as the present invention is concerned, as any type of mechanism may be employed at this point. Independent valves 31 and 32 control the communication of the respective pipes 24 and 25 with the common pipe 27 so that the fluid passed through each of the pipes may be controlled in its admission to the tubes 29 as may be desired in the treatment.

A water container or steam generator in the form of an appropriate tank is supported upon a burner 34, preferably a gas burner, with the latter removably supported on the platform 11. A flexible pipe 35' connects the steam generator with one of the supply pipes, 25. The other of said supply pipes 2% is connected with a source of air under pressure, as from an ordinary fan blower or the like, through a pipe \Vith the apparatus constructed as described, it is apparent that through a simple manipulation of the crank handle 17, the slide frame may be adjusted vertically in order that the flexible tubes 29 may be at such a height as is most convenient for the particular customer being treated. Following the adjustment, the set-screws 21 are turned to hold the slide frame in its adjusted position. Steam is generated in .he generator and after the hair of the customer has been placed in the necessary bones, the valves 31 and 32 are manipulated in accordance with the particular treatment. It is of course apparent that the entire steam generating apparatus and also the air hose connector is adjusted vertically simultaneousl i with the movement of the slide frame and that, therefore, no matter what the adjustment may be, the parts for deflecting steam and admiting the air are always in position and ready for use with liability of separation and without requiring the attendant to lose any time in making connections.

Furthermore, the main and auxi iaiy shields entirely conceal from the view of the customer the details of the apparatus em ployed, thus avoiding any mental apprehension on the part of the customer which might follow a view of the steam generator or air pipe. Furthermore, the provision of the shields necessarily tends to a more or less ornamental appearance of the apparatus as a whole as it is contemplated that such shields may, if desired, be finished in an ornamental and attractive manner which will materially add to the attractiveness so highly desirable in beauty parlors and like places for the treatment of the hair.

\Vith the air hose 36 flexible, as is indicated, the apparatus as a whole is completely portable within limits and may be moved to various positions for the convenience of the attendant and customer.

The various parts of the construction are metal except the flexible hose connections and may be constructed of light material, as no partirular part is subjected to any unusual strain or Thus the apparatus as a whole is comparatively light, and following the disconnection of the air hose, may be readily transported for the treatment of a customer at her home, the additional requisite in this particular being a simple fan blower to be connected to the air hose and operated by electricity or other power.

lVhat is claimed to be new is:

1. In a hair treating apparatus, a main frame, a slide frame adjustable in the main frame and carrying hair treating implements, means carried by the slide frame for directing a treating liuid to the hair treat ing implements, and shield members for concealing said means.

2. A hair treating apparatus including a main frame, a shield enclosing said main frame, a slide frame movable in the main frame, hair treating implements carried by the slide frame, means carried by the slide frame for generating steam, means for delivering the steam to the hair treating implements, and means for adjusting the slide frame relative to the main frame.

3. A hair treating apparatus including a main frame, a shield enclosing said main frame, a slide frame movable in the main frame, hair treating implements carried by the slide frame, means carried by the slide frame for generating steam, means for delivering the steam to the hair treating implements, and means for adjusting the slide frame relative to the main frame, said shield concealing the steam generating apparatus in all relative adjustments of the slide frame.

-l. A hair treating apparatus including a 21min frame, a shield enclosing said main f me, a slide frame movable in the main frame, hair treating implements carried by the slide frame, means carried by the slide frame for generating steam, means for delivering the steam to the hair treating implements, means for adjusting the slide frame relative to the main frame, and an auxiliary shield carried by the slide frame and cooperating with the main shield to conceal the parts in all adjustments of the slide frame.

5. A hair treating apparatus including a main shield, hollow guide bars carried thereby, a slide frame movable in said hollow guide bars, pipe sections carried by the slide frame, a steam generator carried by the slide frame and at all times concealed by said shield, a connection between the steam generator and one of said pipes, a source of air under pressure, and a connection between the source of air under pressure and the other of said pipes.

(3. A hair treating apparatus including a main shield, hollow guide bars carried thereby, a slide frame movable in said hollow guide bars, pipe sections carried by the slide frame, a steam generator carried by the slide frame and at all times concealed by said shield, a connection between the steam generator and one of said pipes, a source of air under pressure and a connection between the source of air under pressure and the other of said pipes, said pipes extending forwardly of the slide frame and supporting hair treating implements.

A hair treating apparatus including a main shield, hollow guide bars carried thereby, a slide frame movable in said hollow guide bars, pipe sections carried by the slide frame, a steam generator carried by the slide frame and at all times concealed by said saield, a. connection between steam generator and one of said pipes, a source of air under pressure, a connection between the source of air under pressure and the other of said pipes, a cable drum carried by the shield and operative from the front of the shield, and a cable leading from said drum and operative to adjust the slide frame in said guides.

8. In a hair treating apparatus, a main frame including a shield having a front plate and side plates, guide bars carried by the shield, a slide frame including side bars movable in said guide bars and connected at their upper ends above the guide bars, a platform carried by the slide frame inwardly of the shield and between the side plates thereof, and pipes carried by the slide frame and extending forwardly thereof to support hair treating implements.

9. In a hair treating apparatus, a main frame including a shi ld having a front plate and side plates, guide bars carried by the shield, a slide frame including side bars movable in said guide bars and connected at their upper ends above the guide bars, a platform carried by the slide frame inwardly of the shield and between the side plates thereof, pipes carried by the slide frame and extending forwardly thereof to support hair treating implements, and an auxiliary shield carried by the slide frame overlyin and having shield cooperation with the first mentioned shield.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature. 

